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Hey, welcome back, everybody. It's Brian Kill Meet Show moving through on a Christmas Eve. If you're waiting to go shopping, today would be the day. I don't think you should wait anymore. I don't want to tell you how to live your life, but if you are looking for last-minute gifts, this is called The Last Minute.
Special thanks to Kennedy for coming by with me in studio. If you're smart enough to watch the stream, and I hope you are. Nate Foy, one of Fox's two rising stars, Fox News correspondent, but you also see him anchoring now, Fox and Friends First. And Nate, great to see you. Great to be here.
Thank you for having me. I want to get the story that you were just doing on CBS. I do want to dive into right away. But first, tell everybody how you got here. Tell everyone how you got to Fox.
So I always wanted to be a broadcaster, but initially it was sports broadcasting similar to yourself. Started doing that in market 206. At the time, there were 211 markets, so it was the fifth smallest registered market in the entire country. St. Joseph, Missouri.
Okay. Went there for a year, got a job in Fort Myers.
So, the sport, you sports was going great. For you to do that, put together a tape and get a job the next year shows you're doing well. It was going well. I loved doing it. Honestly, the reason why I switched was I was kind of looking at the sports media landscape.
And when I was growing up, it was a lot of highlight-driven shows, and then the model kind of changed, and it was a lot of beautiful women surrounded by former professional athletes. And I was like, there's less jobs available.
So then I switched to news and found a love for news in the process, made that transition in Fort Myers, Florida, did some local news reporting in a way. You got hired as a sports guy? Initially, yes.
So it was a duopoly. It was. ABC and NBC For ABC, when I first got there, I was the sports guy, and then they moved me to NBC, and I was the news guy, initially in like a hybrid role. And then I got promoted pretty quickly to news anchoring and did that for four or five years, and then somehow convinced the people here to give me a job.
So, before we do that, what sports were you covering in Fort Myers? Everything. High school, a bunch of high school, football, basketball, volleyball, everything. Because high school, isn't high school football in Florida like Friday Night Lights in Texas? It's very different.
So I grew up in Massachusetts. It's very different speed. The people there, like every single team has a couple kids that play major Division I sports. And for me, there was like one kid every 10 years in my town that would get a massive scholarship. Yeah.
You know, I was Central Mass, Westboro, Massachusetts. We only had a handful of really good athletes, but every single team had kids going to Clemson, Pitt. You know, there's a couple guys in the NFL now. It was pretty cool covering that. Right.
And places we sold out, 3,000 people, 5,000 weekends? Watching the football. Watching the football? I'd say, honestly, the fans weren't that great.
Okay. So that's different from Parents's. Yeah, very different from Texas in that way, for sure.
So you started doing news, you loved it more, or you just thought that was a better path?
Well, initially, I just thought it was a better path. And then I actually found that I loved it more. And one of the reasons why, maybe you experienced this as a sports broadcaster yourself, I was doing all these, like I said, local high school games. And in the process, I was missing, say, a Boston Celtics game or a New England Patriots game. I was like, I'm missing the sports I actually care about to cover the sports that I don't necessarily care about quite as much.
So I felt like I was losing my hobby a little bit. And then I made the transition to news. And I feel like it kind of forced me to grow up a little bit and understand how the world works. It's also less driven by clichés. You know, you ask a coach that you get the same answer over and over again.
It's just different players, different coaches, but it's the same. There's no Senator Kennedy. There's no Senator Kennedy. Yeah. I mean, you do have some characters in whatever you're covering, but I just learned so much more.
Covering news, and I feel like I kind of got my hobby back in the process.
So, four years of Fort Myers, you sent you tape in, or your agent sent you tape in, and they loved you?
Well, I got the luckiest story that any guy has ever had.
So a friend of mine from college, his dad, owns a restaurant. You actually may know Lee Lipton. He owns Benny's on the Beach. Fox and Friends has done shows from Benny's on the Beach in Lake Florida.
So, I'm friends with his son, Dylan, and Dylan had just sent Lee my tape without me asking or knowing. And then Shari Berg went into his restaurant and he knew who she was, and he just went right up to her and he was like, Hey, check out my son's friend. He's a local newscaster in Fort Myers. She was like, Oh, he's actually pretty good. Like, let me talk to him.
So, that's how I got my foot in the door here. Yeah. How did they know? Like, Sherry Berg is a huge, huge executive here. Great story.
But how would she recognize her? I'm not sure if he recognized her or maybe had a relationship with her beforehand. He's tight with a few people here, or if he was just kind of making the rounds, how's your breakfast? How's everything going? Where did you come from?
What do you do? I'm not exactly sure how that went.
So, Sherry looked at it, liked it, and next thing you know?
So, next thing I know, I had an interview with Fox Weather. And then, during the interview with Fox Weather, I thought I ruined the entire thing because at the very end, they asked if I had a question. And I told them, Hey, listen, if you make an offer for me, I will. Yeah. Obsess over weather for the next, however long the contract is.
But I'd be lying if I told you that my goal is anything other than eventually being a Fox News anchor.
So, what's the culture like within the company to switch departments if I prove myself at Fox Weather? And the guy who was running the interview, he was like, You know, why would we offer you if you're already looking at the door? And he said that? Yeah. So, it kind of ended awkwardly, and I could not sleep that entire night.
I thought that I ruined my shot. And then the next day, one of the executives here reached out over email and said, hey, we have a different role in mind for you. She was listening to that email on Zoom, but didn't speak at all.
So I didn't even realize that she was there. And then she reached out and she was like, we're going to start you over on the interview process on the news side. And then like seven or eight interviews later, I got the job. Oh, wow. That is so cool.
That shows you. I mean, there's no format.
So many people say, how do you get into it? There's just no way to, there's no organized way to do it. Like J.P. Morgan, I'm going to start. I'm going to intern, and then I'm going to go to J.P.
I'm going to work my way up the ladder. It's much different in our business, don't you think? I do. And I think for me, it was an example of communicating what you want. And, you know, I wanted to do that up front.
And then once I'm in the door, I kind of shut my mouth and just work hard. And I've already let them know what I want out of it. And then kind of just trust them to do their thing. And then just try to develop myself and get as many experiences as I can. And so far, you're great.
And then you were anchored the other day, right? I don't know. Fox and Friends?
So I just anchored for my first time, Fox and Friends First, on December 8th. I'm anchoring tomorrow between 9 a.m. and noon. All right. And then Friday, 9 to 11.
Wait, so 9 to noon? You're on for three hours? Yeah. Okay, that's interesting because it must be a weekend format then. Because 9 to 11 is Hammer and Dana usually.
So, yeah, tomorrow will be Fox News Live, which is the weekend format. And then Friday will be America's Newsroom. Oh, that's awesome.
So you must be pumped up for that. I'm really excited. Yeah, it's a dream come true.
So, Nate, let's talk about what you were working on a couple of days ago, because I'm pretty amazed by this.
So, Barry Weiss takes over CBS. She's not a conservative. She's kind of in the middle. If you listen to what she's doing now in the free press, listen to her podcast, takes over CBS. And there's going to be pushback.
But from the institutionalists, more traditionalists, the Scott Pelleys of the world, and these reporters, they don't seem happy that she's there. They don't seem happy. The morning show that she's there, and then in 60 minutes sees this story about Seacott prison that is going to say that the Trump administration is sending illegal immigrants to Seacott Prison and that they're going through horrible abuse and horrible treatment. She looks at this story and says, It's not ready to go. You got to get the administration to weigh in on this.
It's got to be balanced. And she also added, you're not moving the story forward. You did this story already. What's new about it? And what was the ramification to that?
Well, you know, I think something that's been lost in this is that she is planning on airing the story. People are saying that she's going to just kill the story and that she's a puppet for the Trump administration, which is not true. She said right off the bat, this story is going to air. It's just going to need a little bit more work before it does. And, you know, Sharon Alfonse, the reporter who put the thing together.
Her position is that she already reached out to the administration. She was a little vague in her wording of whether or not it was sort of like an email, hey, what's your comment, or if it was actually an opportunity to get on the record on camera and give their perspective of the story. But as I'm sure you know, a version, the version that was suppressed for the time being, actually aired in Canada.
So you could kind of watch. The bootleg version of it. And it's from most reports one-sided. And, you know, a lot of people would say should be the Trump administration's perspective because otherwise it's kind of a hit piece. Whatever that is, right?
Yeah. And from the Trump administration's perspective, they're probably thinking, so it's a hit piece. And then at the very end, you'll say, you know, here's what the Trump administration said, which isn't very effective. And, you know, it still is a hit piece.
So, yeah, that's essentially what happened. And it will be interesting to see how the Trump administration cooperates now and if a voice from the Trump administration, possibly Stephen Miller, is included in this newest version.
So I was talking to some of the administration and they didn't get reached out till later. And they also thought to themselves, Include the angel moms, people that have lost their lives to illegal alien immigrants in this country. And they didn't want to. And Barry Weiss says, No, I want you this is the new wrinkle. He's like, No, I want you to include the angel moms in this.
So why wouldn't you want it balanced out? They are reluctant Produce way date, you and I are from the same From the same mindset, I think. You have a news director, you go out and say, This is what I think, and they say, Well, I think you're wrong. They ultimately make the decision.
So, imagine if the news director is also the owner, like he runs the place.
So, they put a person in charge and they tell you what to do. You might be convinced, like a coach might be convinced that the GM is wrong. But in the end, you work the GM hired, you got to answer the question.
So, to me, either you quit. Or shut your mouth and do it. Totally. Or you go to bat behind closed doors. You don't go to another news outlet or post something against your company.
I don't know where that mindset comes from. Yeah. I mean, I can't even imagine doing that. I can imagine being upset privately, to your point, but making it public is something that I can't even relate to at all. But this happens all the time in newsrooms where stories are deemed not ready for air.
And then, you know, to your point, there should be an effort to tell all sides of the story. And, you know, as a journalist, we're always calibrating our own biases. And, you know, you really want to make sure that that doesn't come through in the piece.
So even if you feel a certain way, I think anybody would agree, no matter how you feel about the topic of immigration, that it's a complex issue. And if you're against, you know, the Seacott prison and the treatment of the people there, then sure, you can make that point in your story, but you also need to make the point of why it was necessary in the first place. and the crisis that led to it.
So the other thing is, it reminds me of Ron McDaniel got hired in NBC. And Chuck Todd and everybody else said, I can't believe you hired her because she lied about the 2020 election in their view.
So she was the former RNC chair. She just left her job. She'd be great to have that perspective.
Well, there was such an uproar, they decided they're not going to have her on anymore. Yeah. And they gave her such a hard time in her first interview, and now she's suing Because you just fired her and stopped her from doing other things, and now she's stopped from doing other things because she's in the middle of a lawsuit and she has to prove that it's harmed her career. And then you have you know, you have other examples of people not happy with their company, like uh Joy Reid got fired by uh MSNBC. And you have these other hosts ripping MSNBC's management.
I don't know. Do you know anybody else? Oh, I'm going to go destroy my vice president? Uh, publicly. I mean, we get fired if we did that in a bar, overheard in a bar.
Yeah, and we should. I don't know. Like, I don't understand the mindset. It's just not knowing your place, right? I mean, you know, our job is to execute the news in an ethical way and an accurate way.
Our job is not to comment on the leadership of the network broadly. And the fact that these people are doing that is crazy. And the fact that they're not willing to let the best idea win is even crazier, that they don't actually want to engage in some of these debates, regardless of somebody's history on a particular topic. If somebody has the experience to have a valuable perspective, bring them in. And if you dislike their perspective so much, then win in the argument.
Yeah. I'm stunned by what's going on, but how do you think this whole thing plays out? I mean, Scott Pelley publicly said that Barry Weiss was wrong not to watch this ahead of time and wait until the last minute, and she should take her job more seriously.
So I'm not saying you're going to call for everything, but in your projection, how do you think this plays out? I don't know how the parties coexist if the anchors are telling the The president of news, how unhappy they are with that person. I don't. I have a prediction. I have a prediction that a lot of these guys are going to leave, and they think that the rating is going to go with them.
I don't think they will. Yeah, I I I would agree with that. I I'd say I I have no idea what's going to happen, but I don't think that there's going to be like a major shuffle in the next couple of weeks or anything like that. But I think that Over time in in the The medium-term future, you could see a lot of these people sort of phase out, get a new crop of correspondence in. You already see Weiss is hiring some new talent.
Sort of, you know, remaking the news department to try to engender a bit more trust from the viewers. Just balance it. Don't be a conservative network. Don't be a liberal network. That's what I think she's saying.
That's what I'm trying to do. You know, so I'd be stunned if that's going to be allowed to continue. And the piece is going to air.
So when it comes out, we'll all watch it. I would wager that it's not going to be propaganda for the Trump administration. Yeah, it's going to be: why are you sending these innocent illegal immigrants to a terrible prison in El Salvador? But they believe almost the entire percentage is illegal immigrant criminals who they have trouble legally sending back to their country. They won't be taken.
So El Salvador says, for the right price, we'll take them and we'll put them in prison.
So that's an issue.
So I guess we're going to see what's going to happen with that situation. But I also am very curious to see if things are going to change wholeheartedly. If you look at the Washington Post editorial section, it used to be Mark Thiessen and everybody hates Trump.
Now you look at it, and I have to look twice. Three, four columnists are conservative columnists who have a perspective. Not every conservative columnist, maybe 50, 50, like Trump. It's okay. But at least you give him a shot.
So I think you can read the editorial section of the Washington Post and see a balance. I think that's a good sign. Oh, it's a great sign. I mean, I can tell you that, you know, from a guy who graduated college, what, 11 years ago. I felt like for a lot of my young adult life, you really had to seek out a conservative perspective.
If you didn't, you just never got it. Never got it.
So I think that it's helpful that, you know, in these sort of mainstream publications, that if you're a new news consumer and the Washington Post, obviously, everyone's heard of.
So it's like, let me check out their editorial section. The fact that you can easily find these conservative perspectives, whether or not you agree with them, is healthy for our country. All right. We're going to see you all week, all weekend, the rest of the week, right?
So we're going to watch your 9 to 3 tomorrow. And then Friday is 9 to 11. Nate Foy, Fox News National Corresponding. Great job, Nate. Before we leave, can we play a little of Nate singing us out for the Christmas party?
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